Thursday, June 05, 2003

No Speedy Trial Act violation for defendant indicted in 2001

In U.S. v. Ketron, Judge Jones denied the defendant's motions for dismissal for violation of his statutory and constitutional rights to a speedy trial, where the defendant was indicted in 2001 but did not appear before a judicial officer in the W.D. Va. until 2003, having been in prison elsewhere in the interim. The defendant was represented by Nancy Dickenson of Lebanon.